Sept 6, 2025 … Seeking God’s Justice …

 Sept 6, 2025  … Seeking God’s Justice    …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Pat Barrett singing… Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly,  … calling for Christians to live under God’s justice, with His mercy; and walking humbly as we serve the Lord. … even in times of suffering and oppression.   

Highlight Passage: …Psalms 109:20 … [NLT] … 

20 May those curses become the Lord’s punishment for my accusers who speak evil of me. 

… David calls on his God to enact His justice on those who speak ill against David.

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Psalms 109:6-9, 20-29 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… King David turns his anger directed toward his enemies to seek God’s justice.  

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Reference Passage: …  Leviticus 19:18  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Moses, calls on His chosen and faithful followers to never seek revenge but seek God’s justice and show love to your neighbors, … yes, even those who do wrong to you. 

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 24:29  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God’s promise thru Solomon to enact His justice on those who do wrong in God’s eyes.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:44  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus calls on His followers to pray for those who persecute you.   

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:19-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul quotes from Deuteronomy 32:35 exhorting fellow Christians to avoid seeking revenge against others; but rather leaving the justice or punishment to God.

Reference Passage: …  1Thessalonians 5:15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also charges fellow Christians to NEVEr pay back evil for evil; … but to do good to those who do evil to them (us). 

Reference Passage:… 1Peter 2:23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Peter show how Jesus left the reprisal for those who came after Him to His heavenly Father’s justice.   

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Leslie Koh … AT THIS LINK   … related a true story of a young domestic worker who as was brutally treated by her employers who were ultimately accused and jailed for the torture they enacted on their hired worker.  But the ODB author was angry at the sentence, feeling that the employers ought to suffer the same kind of suffering that the young worker had endured.  And the author recognized that her feelings of revenge where not right, given what God’s word says about such situations and circumstances. 

So, if my readers have taken in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures shared above, I think you might be convicted, as was I,  to do more to pray for - rather than to seek vengeance on - those who mistreat us in life. Too often my anger at those who come against me, which. too often, leads me to seek reprisal on those who come against me.  How about we all seek God’s mercy and HIS justice on those who come against us, … and praying that He will have mercy on us as we pray for our enemies to receive God’s loving justice.   

My Thanksgiving:… Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for for showing me that I need to seek -  and pray for -  YOUR justice for those who come against me.    

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … Lord. …for  being the God of all justice in our world.   … Amen

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